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President Barack Obama will address the nation at 7:30 p.m. EDT to announce an agreement with Afghan President Hamid Karzai on the role of U.S. troops in Afghanistan.

Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney ignored a heckler shouting Mitt Romney you're a racist! while he and New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani criticized Barack Obama for politicizing the killing of Osama bin Laden.

Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich released a video to supporters that he would drop out of the race on Wednesday.

US airport authorities are on alert and taking special caution on the first death anniversary of America?s most wanted fugitive, Osama Bin Laden, the mastermind of Sept.11 terrorist attack on United States.

Campaigning for President Barack Obama, former President Bill Clinton said the Obama administration was beating the clock on the U.S. economic recovery, and he rebuked Mitt Romney for pushing Bush-era policies on steroids.

The U.S. Secret Service tightened its rules of conduct for agents last week in response to the scandal.

Keeping up an old tradition, Germany has threatened to boycott the upcoming Euro 2012 soccer tournament in protest of the imprisonment and alleged mistreatment of Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko.

Jimmy Kimmel had the ballroom at Washington Hilton roaring with laughter at the White House Correspondents dinner, but the comedian had tough competition from another major speaker.

House Speaker John Boehner accused President Barack Obama of diminishing the presidency by picking fake fights during his re-election bid. But even in the political fake fight realm, who is winning?

Washington will host Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda for three days of bilateral discussions over trade policy and the North Korean and Iranian nuclear threats, in hopes of strengthening the US-Japan alliance.

Kony, who rose to infamy after featuring in a web video by U.S. advocacy group Invisible Children, is still conducting the brutal campaign of rape, mutilation and abduction with his Lord's Resistance Army from the remote jungle areas, Aronda Nyakairima said.

When you have a room full of politicians and glamorous celebrities, with journalists keeping a watchful eye, there?s bound to be an awkward confrontation from those who hold office upon sight of those in the limelight. That is exactly what happened when Rick met Lindsay on Saturday evening at the 98th annual White House Correspondent?s Dinner in Washington, D.C. when the former presidential candidate Rick Santorum played paparazzi and snapped photos of Lindsay Lohan at the dinner.

President Barack Obama turned Saturday's White House Correspondents' Association dinner into a roast of his likely 2012 presidential election campaign and his widely predicted Republican opponent, Mitt Romney, while also taking jabs at his staff, Congress, ongoing scandals within his administration and the event's absurd A-list turnout.

If the U.S. presidential election was held today, President Barack Obama could easily lose. Fortunately for Obama -- and, by extension, for the Democratic Party -- the election is not today: it's 7 months from now.

The first Hispanic on the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday on an Arizona immigration law critics say will lead to racial profiling of Latinos. She didn't lose the plainspoken, blunt tone she is known for.

Twitter's 20 most-followed celebrity users have millions of followers among them. Here's a breakdown of the most popular celeb Tweeters from Lady Gaga to Cristiano Ronaldo.

The Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives defied a veto threat by President Barack Obama on Friday and voted to take money from his healthcare overhaul to pay for an extension of low-interest federal student loans.

Mitt Romney may never have anything that comes close to President Barack Obama's hip and stylish image, but the likely Republican nominee is hoping to use Obama's reputation -- against Obama.

The student loan debate continues in Washington as the House plans to vote on a bill Friday that would keep interest rates at 3.4 percent for subsidized Stafford loans, instead of increasing to 6.8 percent on July 1.

Republicans on Thursday issued a politically charged report that quoted President Barack Obama's corporate advisers as predicting his 2010 healthcare overhaul would raise - not lower - the cost of care.

Romney campaign calls it sad that the Obama campaign is using an event that unified our country to once again divide us.